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ORLANDO, Florida – Former President Donald Trump, in results released Sunday, won the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) poll with 55% of attendees saying they would vote for him if the GOP primary 2024 took place today.
Trump got 55% of the vote in the poll he was included in, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in second place at 21%.
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Notably, CPAC is being held in Orlando, Florida in 2021 due to coronavirus restrictions. Shortly before pollster Jim McLaughlin announced the straw poll results, the ballroom erupted to cheers endorsing the decision to hold CPAC in Florida.
CPAC also conducted a poll without Trump. DeSantis won the poll with 43% of the vote, followed by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem with 11% and Donald Trump Jr. with 8%.
President Donald Trump holds his face mask as he stands on the Blue Room balcony upon his return to the White House on Monday, October 5, 2020 in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, in Maryland (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
Trump’s approval rating in the Straw Poll was 97%, with 87% saying they strongly approve of Trump’s work as president. And 68% of people at CPAC in the Straw Poll said Trump should run for president again.
The straw poll is not a scientific poll. CPAC sold itself in advance as a pro-Trump rally, so the self-selected crowd is likely to be more pro-Trump than the Republican Party as a whole. There was even a golden statue, which many compared to an idol, of the former president.
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US Conservative Union President Matt Schlapp also said in an interview with Fox News last week that any Republican wishing to win the 2024 GOP nomination should be closely aligned with Trump.
“Look, you won’t get the Republican nomination being a never-trumper,” Schlapp said. “You won’t get the Republican nomination if you’re not a strong Tory. So all that kind of courting, it’s okay to start at CPAC.
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Republicans who were very critical of the former president performed very poorly in the CPAC straw ballot. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan got 0.1%, while Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah got 0.3%.
Notably, 95% of those who responded to CPAC’s straw poll said the GOP should continue with the Trump agenda. Only 3% said it should change direction.
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